1. How to organize ourselves Rich Partridge, Marcel Demarteau for the Tracking Group SiD Tracking Meeting December 8, 2006 Tracking Review at Beijing

2. SiD Tracking Meeting, Dec. 8, 2006, M. Demarteau Slide 2 ILC Detector R&D Review Damerell panel will review tracking at Beijing GDE/ACFA meeting Sunday 4th Feb: ILC Workshop, opening plenaries Monday 5th Feb: Tracking Review - open session presentations, followed by dinner for all involved. Tuesday 6th Feb: Tracking Review - closed session discussions with individual groups Wednesday 7th Feb: ILC Workshop, closing plenaries Thursday 8th Feb: Tracking Review - closed session feedback of draft report to individual groups Tracking Review Committee (18 members, may have changed): Panel members (Damerell, Karlen, Kim, Lohmann, Weerts) RDB members (Elsen, Himel, Willis) Consultants (Braun-Munzinger, Giomataris, Sauli, Hamagaki, Heijne, Sadrozinski, Spieler, Unno) Two tracking organisers from Beijing workshop (Li Weiguo will select them)

3. SiD Tracking Meeting, Dec. 8, 2006, M. Demarteau Slide 3 Review Chris sent out a memo Nov. 30: “Guidelines for Participating Groups”; Follow-up memo this morning, Dec. 8 th Collaborations should decide how they would like to present work When bids are in, review committee will allocate time and make suggestions Time allocation: morning of 5 th : gaseous tracking LC-TPC two hours of presentations 4 th concept: one or two talks, to be negotiated with John Hauptman afternoon of 5 th : silicon tracking SiLC two hours of presentation SiD two hours of presentation Additional groups outside these 4 collaborations will be given typically a 15 min talk

4. SiD Tracking Meeting, Dec. 8, 2006, M. Demarteau Slide 4 Presentation Format Any effort integrated with the SiD concept can be part of the two hours of presentation allocated to SiD We contacted all tracking efforts we know off Brown U (Partridge) U of Colorado (Wagner) Kansas State, Bonn U (von Toerne) Purdue University (Bortoletto) SLAC-Fermilab (Nelson, Cooper) University of Michigan (Riles) UC Santa Cruz (Schumm) University of New Mexico (Seidel) UC Davis If any of these efforts would like to be included in the SiD allocation, we’d be happy to do so (we can negotiate for more time if need be) If groups would like to represent themselves they should let Chris know

5. SiD Tracking Meeting, Dec. 8, 2006, M. Demarteau Slide 5 Approach SiD specific part of the review Address core SiD philosophy: Emphasize uniform technology central and barrel region of SiD SiD is unique in forward region Need backup with tracking and benchmarking studies Description of SiD performance and software development Sensor R&D of double-metal layer with kPix chip readout Module design Barrel and forward disk design and mechanical support Emphasize that forward region needs R&D to optimize performance Assumed that software development (Brown, Colorado, KSU) be integral part of this section of the presentation Address core contributions from individual groups Alignment system Cable design kPiX, bump bonding Time over Threshold ? Thin silicon ? Do we reach out to include other efforts ?

6. SiD Tracking Meeting, Dec. 8, 2006, M. Demarteau Slide 6 Report Damerell review panel would like a written report by Jan. 28 Ideally the report should give an overview of the goals, starting from current status, up to the completion of their R&D programme, ready to start construction Scope indicated by panel (see next slide) is far too broad to be accomplished on such a short time scale Better strategy may be to start with SiD DOD or SiD section of DCR and highlight the R&D that is needed and give a solid estimate of the effort and M&S needed to complete the R&D This could nicely fit in with the call for the 5-year R&D proposals by the ALCPG We’re willing to help coordinate the effort for all the groups, but we need your feedback

7. SiD Tracking Meeting, Dec. 8, 2006, M. Demarteau Slide 7 Scope of Report Requested written report by Jan. 28 Overview of the goals, starting from current status, up to the completion of their R&D programme, ready to start construction: overall physics-driven performance goals track-finding efficiency, down to what lower limit of polar angle and momentum special case: tracks originating from B and D decays beyond the vertex detector forward tracking - a weak area or not? combination of difficult factors, such as long-lived decays, small polar angles, tracks in core of jets momentum resolution vs momentum and polar angle over full range dE/dx performance - how useful is this for physics? design of sensors, modules, and support structures readout electronics and DAQ system system power dissipation, quantifying the benefits of pulsed power if used cooling system cabling and fibre optics - power and data other infrastructure such as gas control systems overall mechanical stability - implications of push-pull on calibration needs vulnerability to errant beam bunches - 'fliers' overall material budget; implications of secondary interactions and photon conversions on system performance such as jet energy resolution other topics that lie in the cracks between tracking and other subsystems Report should discuss R&D program subdivided into work packages